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RISK!

RISK!

If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.

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  • 49 episodes
  • Avg 54 min
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  • S17 · E1742
    June 30 · 39 min

    But You Look So Good

    Appearances rarely match what is happening underneath. Ande Jackson navigates the things people say to someone with cancer, and Chetter M. Galloway moves through addiction, a doctor's advice, and a road trip to a family reunion. Two very different reckonings with how the world reads us.

  • S17 · E83
    June 25 · 38 min

    The Best of Long Shot Stories

    Shauna McGarry and David Crabb take swings that don't go as planned, in two stories about long odds, imperfect calculations, and what you end up with anyway.

  • S17 · E1741
    June 23 · 34 min

    Negative Attention

    Brittany Ross and Sam Feirstein take the RISK! LA stage tell of how they both wanted onto the screen, because the screen is where they'd learned, as kids, that the real people live: the famous, the admired, the thin, the chosen. Each came within reach of the dream, and each discovered, up close, that it had been a nightmare all along.

  • S17 · E446
    June 18 · 1 hr 8 min

    My Old Man

    A classic RISK! episode from August 2013, featuring Chesley Calloway, Gretchen Menter-Felice, Colleen Hindsley, and Dan Kennedy on fathers: the absent, the unconventional, the dying, and the surprisingly forgiving.

  • S17 · E1740
    June 16 · 37 min

    Something Wild

    When Kambri Crews' dream horse develops a very unexpected habit, and Evan Miles finds his life turned upside down by a shocking accusation, two storytellers share what happened when things got a little too wild.

  • S17 · E520
    June 11 · 1 hr 7 min

    Live From San Fran 2014

    Stephen Tobolowsky, Dana Gould, Nato Green, and Brendon Walsh took the stage at the San Francisco Sketch Fest in 2014 for one of RISK!'s beloved annual live shows. This classic episode ranges from Hollywood knife fights to Vampira's funeral, from a San Francisco childhood to a Philadelphia street brawl.

  • S17 · E1739
    June 9 · 45 min

    Captives

    Sofia Javed and Heather Minter were each dropped into a system with its own rules, its own demands, and very little regard for the people inside it. Two stories from RISK!'s live show in Washington, DC, guest-hosted by the captivating Cyndi Freeman.

  • S17 · E518
    June 4 · 1 hr 13 min

    Live From Seattle!

    A classic from February 2014: Summer Waldron, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Emmett Montgomery, and Dan Savage took the stage in Seattle for a night that moved from dark comedy and family heartbreak to near-death hallucinations and one of the most disarmingly frank sexual memoirs you'll ever hear.

  • S17 · E1738
    June 2 · 43 min

    Love, Death, and Dad’s Pee

    Bailey Swilley and Nick Hornedo bring their most unwieldy true stories to Taj Easton's vision for RISK! this week, from a grandmother's emergency witchcraft to a high school friendship that kept ending in groin injuries. Plus a bonus deathbed anecdote from JC Cassis.

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